Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae.
Species It contains the following species: Image Name Common name Distribution Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) Caribbean spiny lobster western Atlantic Ocean Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005 Ogasawara Group (Bonin Islands) of southern Japan Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 western rock lobster. west coast of Australia Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 brown spiny lobster tropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands. Panulirus femoristriga (von Martens, 1872) stripe-leg spiny lobster Indo-Pacific. Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871 green spiny lobster Eastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands. Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) spotted spiny lobster or Guinea chick lobster western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its range extends from Bermuda, the Bahamas, southern Florida and the West Indies, to Curaçao, Bonaire, Los Roques and Suriname Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) blue spiny lobster Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico. Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) California spiny lobstereastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Panulirus japonicus (von Siebold, 1824) Japanese spiny lobster the Pacific Ocean around Japan, China, and Korea. Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817) smoothtail spiny lobster Western Atlantic Panulirus longipes (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868) longlegged spiny lobster tropical Indo-Pacific Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Hawaiian Islands Panulirus meripurpuratus (Giraldes & Smyth,2016) Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil. Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster, ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954 Easter Island spiny lobster Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791) variegated crayfish, tufted spiny lobster, spiny lobster, Socorro spiny lobster, red lobster, pronghorn spiny lobster, golden rock lobster, double spined rock lobster and coral cray tropical Indo-Pacific region Panulirus polyphagus (Herbst, 1793) mud spiny lobster tropical Indo-Pacific region. Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864 royal spiny lobster Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963 Chinese spiny lobster Indo-West Pacific Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804) painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and blue spiny lobster western Pacific and the Indian Ocean
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